Collapsible closet.



No. 660,246. Patented 0ct. 2f3 I900.

" Him. FESSENDEN.

COLLAPSIBLE CLOSET.

(Application filed July 12, 1900.)

(N0 Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY M. FESSENDEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COLLAPSlBLE CLOS ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 660,246, dated October 23, 1900. Application filed July 12, 1900. l Serial No- 23,340. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY M. FESSENDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collapsible Closets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the drawings accompanying and forming a part of the same.

The object of the invention which forms the subject of my present application "is to provide a simple, cheap, and convenient form of knockdown or collapsible closet the frame of which may be readily disconnected into parts of short length and packed into small compass for convenient transportation.

The improvement consists, essentially, in a frame composed of sections, preferably tubular, which are detachably secured together and arranged to telescope one within the other in the specific manner hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a frame set up ready for use; Fig. 2, an enlarged view of a center support and the cross-bars to which 7 the same is attached; Fig. 3, an enlarged seetional view of one of the uprights and portions of the side bars to which the same is connected, and Fig. 4- a detail of a corner connection.

The top and bottom portions of the frame are composed of tubular rods A A and B B, of approximately one-half the entire length of the frame, and smaller rods A A and B B, which telescope and are adapted to slide freely within the same. The ends of the rectangular frames are composed of the tubular rods 0 O, which connect the side bars of the bottom frame, and O O", which similarly connect the side bars of the top frame.

The top and bottom frames are supported by uprights, each composed of telescoping sections G and G. One of such uprights is connected to each corner of the two frames, and as an additional support a similar upright is connected to two cross-bars H H, secured to the upper and lower frames at or near the center of the same.

Each of the telescoping uprights, as well as the side bars of the upper and lower frames, is provided with clamping-screws K, by means of which the two sections are held in fixed relation to one another in whatever position they may be adjusted.

In order that the several portions of the frame may be disconnected into simple straight portions, the said sections are secured together at the corners by any suitable form of joint which permits their ready detachment from each other. The devices for this purpose may be considerably varied, but I prefer those illustrated in Figs. '1, 3, and 4.

The corner sections or joints for the top frame are composed of short lengths of tubing E, bent at right angles and pinched together atthe angle. In the open ends of the bent tube are driven or screw plugs D, with projecting threaded ends, which latter are adapted to enter and engage with the internally-threaded ends of the tubes A or A.

The ends of the upright tube-sections G are suitably formed to engage with the cornerpieces E, preferably by means of threaded plugs F, driven or screwed into the tubes and adapted to be secured to the corner-pieces by wing-nuts L. s

The corner-pieces for the bottom frame are short pieces of tubing M, or they may be solid, with three threaded projections 1, 2, and 3, the first for engaging with the internally-threaded end of a cross-bar C, the second for engaging in a similar manner with the end of a side bar B or B, and the third for engaging with an upright G.

In addition to the side and end bars of the frame and the center support and its crossbars I employ any desired number of light cross-bars N, with hooked or other suitablyformed ends, which are sprung or slipped over the side bars of the upper frame to afford supports for hooks P or the like.

Assuming the parts to be all disconnected, it will be seen that they may be packed in small compassand carried in a trunk. To set the closet up, the cross-bars C are first united to the corner-sections M and the crossbars 0 to the corner-pieces E. The top and bottom frames are then completed by uniting the sidebars to their respective cornerpieces and the frame erected by uniting the top and bottom frames by the uprights; The frame may be inclosed by a suitable cover or curtain of any desired material.

As a matter of convenience and to enable 1 one to more easily set up the frame the inner sections of the uprights may be marked over in some formiof scale, so as to indicate their height.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A knockdown or collapsible closet-frame, composed of sectional side bars, one section being adapted to telescope into the other, sectional uprights similarly adapted to be telescoped, and end bars, all detachably connected together in substantially the manner herein shown.

2. Aknockdown or collapsible closet-frame composedof top and bottom frames with telescoping side bars, and end bars detachably connected thereto, and telescoping uprights detachably connected to thetop and bottom ,frames, the telescoping bars being provided with means forfixing them in any length to which they may be adjusted, as set forth.

3. A knockdown or collapsible closet-frame composed of telescoping side bars and uprights, end bars, and corner-pieces to which the-said side-and end bars anduprights are detachably connected, as herein set forth.

4. A knockdown or collapsible closet-frame composed of telescoping side bars and uprights, end bars and a centraltelescoping up right, allof said parts being detachably connected as herein set forth.

HARRY M. FESSENDEN.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM M. BRADLEY, MAUDE L. WHITE. 

